Book: Climate Change Mitigation, Technological Innovation and Adaptation

Finally, the long-due book that summarizes work done with the integrated assessment model WITCH
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Abstract

This book presents a rigorous yet accessible treatment of the main topics in climate change policy using a large body of research generated using WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid), an innovative and path-breaking integrated assessment model.

The authors give a particular emphasis to the analysis of technological change necessary to build low-carbon economies. The WITCH model can track all of the actions which impact the level of mitigation – such as R&D expenditures, investments in carbon-free technologies and adaptation, purchases of emission permits, or expenditures for carbon taxes – thus allowing for the evaluation of equilibrium responses stimulated by different climate policy tools. The chapters examine various questions to explore the future of climate change policy. Why is it so hard to achieve a global agreement that paves the way to widespread reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions? What are the technologies that would deliver clean energy without harming economic growth? And finally, how does uncertainty about future policies and future technologies affect choices in the present?

This innovative book will appeal to researchers, policy makers and academics interested in climate change policy.

Contributors: Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Enrica De Cian, Thomas Longden, Emanuele Massetti, Lea Nicita, Fabio Sferra, Alessandra Sgobbi and Massimo Tavoni

International Climate Change Negotiations: Lessons from Theory

New book chapter written with Carlo Carraro on the theory of climate change negotiations, published in:

Climate Change Policies - Global Challenges and Future Prospects


Edited by Emilio Cerdá, Professor of Economics, Complutense University, Spain and Xavier Labandeira, Professor of Economics, University of Vigo, Spain.

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Content: Climate Change Policies sheds light on the foundations, design and effects of climate change policies. Written by leading international experts in the field, this book deals with the various economic effects from climate change policies introduced at national and international levels. It also expertly describes actual applications of climate change policies in the main emitting countries. This insightful study includes chapters on public policies and climate change impacts, adaptation, mitigation, effects on competitiveness, new technologies, distributional concerns, and the international dimension.

Contributors: F.J. André, A. Ansuategi, V. Arroyo, C. Carraro, E. Cerdá, J.C. Ciscar, P. Del Río, O. Edenhofer, I. Galarraga, C.A. Grainger, M. Hanemann, B. Knopf, C.D. Kolstad, X. Labandeira, P. Linares, M.L. Loureiro, G. Luderer, A. Markandya, E. Massetti, A. Michaelowa, D. Paci, N. Padrón, P. Quirion, B. Saveyn, A. Soria, G.C. Unruh, L. Vergano, Z. Zhang